Google News Monitor: Keyword Alerts & New Articles

What does Google News Monitor do?

Google News Monitor watches Google News for your keywords, topics or any Google News link and returns only the articles that are new since the last run. Each article comes with its real publisher URL (decoded from Google's redirect link), publisher, publish time and related coverage; turn on details for the full text.

Schedule it every hour or every day and connect the results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or a webhook to get news alerts. No API key or Google account needed.

Why use this news monitor?

• 🔔 Only new articles, every run. The first run sets the baseline; after that you get only what's new, so you never process the same story twice.
• 🔗 Real article URLs included. Not Google redirect links.
• 🎯 Precise queries. Google operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com.
• 🌍 41 editions. Monitor news in the US, UK, India, Germany, France, Brazil, Japan and more.
• 🧹 Filters. Exclude sources you don't want; excluded articles are not charged.
• 💸 Pay only for new articles. Runs with nothing new cost almost nothing.

Typical uses: brand and reputation monitoring, PR coverage tracking, competitor alerts, market-moving news for trading, and topic feeds for newsletters and AI agents.

How to set up news alerts

1. Click Try for free and add your keywords, topics or Google News links.
2. Run it once: this run returns the latest articles and remembers them.
3. In Apify Console, open Schedules and run the Actor every hour or every day.
4. Add an integration (Slack, email, Google Sheets, webhook) to receive each run's new articles.

Use a different Monitoring store name for each separate monitor; change it to start over.

What data do you get?

Field	Description
title, source, sourceUrl	Headline and publisher
url	The publisher's article URL
publishedAt	Publish time (ISO 8601)
relatedArticles	Other coverage of the same story (topics and top stories)
feedValue	The keyword, topic or link that matched
description, imageUrl, author, text, wordCount	Article details (optional)

How much does it cost?

Pay per new article, with platform usage and proxies included. See the Pricing tab; articles with full text cost more, and higher Apify plans pay less.

Input example

{
    "searchQueries": ["\"Acme Corp\" OR acme.com", "acme recall"],
    "topics": ["BUSINESS"],
    "edition": "US:en",
    "timeRange": "7d",
    "excludeSources": ["Yahoo Finance"]
}

FAQ

What does the first run return?

The latest articles for each keyword or feed (up to Max new articles), within the time range. It also remembers everything currently in those feeds, so the next run returns only newer articles.

Do I need the full Google News scraper instead?

For one-off research, historical date ranges and more than 100 results per keyword, use Google News Scraper.

Is it legal to monitor Google News?

This Actor collects public headlines, links and publication metadata. Articles are protected by copyright: use the data for monitoring and analysis and link to the original sources. This Actor is not affiliated with Google.

Where can I get help?

Open an issue in the Issues tab with a link to your run. Issues are usually answered within a day.